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Committee of Human Rights Reporters: According to news sources Hassan Rezai Nejad, a specialist at a high tech engineering firm who works as a contractor at the Organization of Prisons, was arrested last week after being issued a summons.

The sources have reported that this tech expert who is a technician for security equipment at Evin prison was arrested on Wednesday October 17th. When Rezai Nejad went to Evin per the summons order, he was arrested and transferred to the prison’s detention center.

Per reports, after arresting Hassan Rezai Nejad, security agents escorted him back to his residence and while terrorizing his family they conducted a search of his home and seized various personal and work related items before transferring him to prison.

There is still no news of the reason for Rezai Nejad’s arrest and his family’s efforts to obtain information about his situation and whereabouts have been futile.

Prior to this the Ministry of Intelligence arrested a group of individuals and afterwards announced that they were technical experts who had worked at various national security, defense, and military agencies.